The government of the City of Buenos Aires presents "Aires Buenos Aires - Cultura para respirar" (Culture to Breathe), a program of cultural activities that starts next Saturday, January 9th, 2010 consisting on over 300 free events, including: musical shows, drive-in movies, theater plays, activities for children, circus, open air "milongas", and numerous musical events, every day during January and February, 2010.
David Lebon, Catupecu Machu, Divididos, Pedro Aznar, Las Pelotas, Attaque 77, Los Auténticos Decadentes, Miranda!, Los Cafres, Bahiano, Luis Salinas, Juana Molina, Javier Malosetti, are some of the artists that will entertain the audiences with their shows.
The schedule includes over 300 free events in different neighborhoods around Buenos Aires: movies, theater plays, recitals at Parque Roca and Costanera Sur, popular "milongas" in parks around the city, children's shows, circus shows, painting workshops for kids at Pasaje Lanin, Julio Bocca's Ballet Argentino at the Amphitheater of Parque Centenario, among many others.
The drive-in will be set up at the Rose Garden, on Iraola & Sarmiento, Paseo de la Infanta, every Saturday and Sunday at 9:00 PM. There will also be stalls for spectators without a car. The first  showing will be "El Secreto de sus ojos", with Ricardo Darin, directed by Juan Jose Campanella.

The closing of the activities will be on February 20th, 7 pm, with a tango show celebrating Mariano Mores at the Obelisk.
To see complete schedule of activities visit Aires Buenos Aires website.

ArtFutura, the festival of Digital Culture and Creativity of reference in Spain since 1990, arrives for the  second time in Buenos Aires. It will be held between November 5 and November 8, 2009, at MALBA.
ArtFutura has explored the most interesting projects and ideas that have come up on the international panorama of new media, interactive design, videogames and digital animation. Its activities include conferences, workshops, interactive installations, exhibitions and live performances.
ArtFutura’s Audiovisual Program will be presented in twelve Spanish cities simultaneously: Alicante, Barcelona, Cadiz, Gijon, Granada, Madrid, Murcia, Palma de Mallorca, Pamplona-Huarte, Valladolid, Vigo and Zaragoza. And this year, ArtFutura’s program will also be presented in the MALBA Museum in Buenos Aires in November.
As every year, ArtFutura’s Audiovisual Program 2009 will explore the projects and the most important ideas that have appeared on the international panorama of design, videogames and digital animation. Among its programs: the new selections for the ArtFutura Show and 3D in Spain, documentaries on the work of Chris Landreth, PES and Digital Kitchen, various retrospectives and two new sections: Reality Bytes (dedicated to new documentaries) and Futura Graphics (motion graphics and videoclips). The Dvein studios will present their projects for the first time in Argentina.

Dates: November 5-8, 2009
Location: Malba - Latin American Art Museum. Av. Figueroa Alcorta 3415
Free entrance. Limited Capacity
For more information and program, visit ArtFutura website.

The French Week in Buenos Aires "Vivi Francia 2009" will take place from October 26 to November 4, 2009, organized by the French-Argentine Commerce and Industry Chamber (CCIFA), and sponsored by the French Embassy and the Ministry of Culture of the City of Buenos Aires. A series of activities to enjoy French culture, art, gastronomy, fashion, music and architecture, free and open to all, including guided visits to French buildings in Buenos Aires, a movie festival at Alliance Francaise, make-up and fashion shows, art exhibitions, and a gastronomic festival.

Some of the scheduled activities are:

Guided visits:

Monday 26, 3 pm: Parisian corners of Buenos Aires - Av. Alvear & Cerrito

Tuesday 27, Wednesday 28, 5 pm: Legislative Palace - Peru 160

Wednesday 28, 3 pm: Art, Palaces and Landscapes - Av. Santa Fe & Maipu (San Martin Monument)

Business:

Wednesday 28, 10 am to 7 pm: French-Argentine Business Forum - Palacio Duhau Park Hyatt (registration required)

Cinema:

Monday 26, Tuesday 27, Friday 29, Saturday 30, 8 pm: Movies by David Teboul at Alliance Francaise.

Exhibitions:

Saturday 31, 6 pm: Inauguration of "Images of the Louvre: Six Centuries of French Paintings", in the streets of La Boca.

Wednesday 4, 7 pm: Inauguration of the exhibition "Charles Thays, a French Gardener" - Centro Cultural Recoleta, Junin 1930.

Language:

Conversation groups "Degustation de Francais", every day at a different location (minimum charge of $ 30 pesos)

Music:

Tuesday 27, 8.15 pm: concert homage to Georges Brassens - Espacio Ultra, San Martin 678.

Science:

Visit of Mrs Francoise Barre-Sinousi, Nobel Prize in Medicine 2008.

Fashion and beauty:

Monday 26 to Sunday 1, 4 pm to 9 pm: talks and workshops at Living Frances Renault, Paseo Alcorta Shopping Mall.

Wedsnesday 28 to Sunday 1: Festival Givenchy

Gastronomy:

Festival Gourmet at Sofitel Buenos Aires

Soirees Culturelles at Sofitel Buenos Aires (minimum charge of $ 30 pesos per person)

All the activities are free of charge, some of them with a limited capacity.

For more information, complete daily schedules, and registrations, visit "Vivi Francia 2009" official website (in Spanish only).

The best adventure film festival in the world, Banff Mountain Film Festival, arrives in Buenos Aires for the ninth time as part of its World Tour, with spectacular films about mountaineering, nature, and extreme sports, from countries like Norway, Germany, United States, and Canada, among others.

As a new feature this year, a series of conferences will be held before the movie screenings. Great Argentine adventurers and mountain men, like Sebastián Cura, Guillermo Glass and Christian Vitry (Expedición Dhaulagiri 2008), Alfredo Barragán (Expedición Atlantis, El desafío a los imposibles), and Humberto Vázquez, with Martin Iglesias, from Expedición Bicentenario 2010, will share their experiences, adventures and projects. On September 21, 22, andl 23, at 6.00 pm, with free entrance.

The program combines 13 films, featuring great stories of daring sporstmen, surrounded by breathtaking natural landscapes. The last date, called "3ra Noche" is the National Festival of Adventure and Nature Cinema, presenting the best films in the field by Argentine directors.

The Banff Mountain Film Festival was created in 1976, in the Canadian town of Banff, when 450 people gathered to watch 10 movies. From then on the festival grew every year to screen the best pictures that capture the spirit of mountain and adventure culture. The Festival´s World Tour began 15 years ago, and it was presented for the first time in Argentina in 2001.

Dates: September 21, 22, and 23, 2009
Location: Hoyts Cinemas Dot Baires Shopping. Vedia 3632 (Saavedra)
Tickets on sale at the venue. $ 25 Pesos for 1 night, $ 65 Pesos for the 3 nights.

For more information and complete program, visit the Banff Mountain Film Festival's website.

For the first time in Argentina, Star Wars fans will have the opportunity to live a unique experience: Star Wars The Exhibition, starting July 2, 2009 until September 13, 2009, at Centro Cultural Recoleta.
Star Wars The Exhibition Argentina features over 200 original objects, costumes, props, drawings, vehicles and models from the Star Wars movies. These objects give visitors a rare glimpse into the making of the epic saga.
Some of the life-sized featured items are:
Space ships: “Jedi Starfighter”; “Anakin Skywalker´s Podracer”; “Imperial Speeder Bike”; “Anakin´s Airspeeder”.
Models: "Millennium Falcon"; "Imperial Star Destroyer".
The exhibition features nine different rooms to recreate the atmosphere of each particular world, along with several interactive activities that range from Jedi training to a green screen simulation which puts visitors right into the films.
At the Jedi School, kids will be trained by Jedi Masters to learn how to use laser sabres to defeat the evil Darth Vader and Darth Sidious.

Location: Centro Cultural Recoleta. Junin 1930.
Opening Hours:
Tuesday to Friday: 9 am to 9 pm
Saturdays and Sundays: 10 am to 9 pm
Tickets: AR $ 35. Children under 3: free. On sale at Centro Cultural Recoleta or through Ticketek Argentina.
Star Wars The Exhibition Argentina official website.

The second edition of Ciudad Emergente, the Festival of the youth culture, will take place from Thursday 11 to Monday 15 June, 2009 at Centro Cultural Recoleta.

This Festival, organised by the Ministry of Culture of the Government of the City of Buenos Aires, presents the new expressions of the youth culture: rock, pop, street art, animation, poetry, cinema and digital art.

The activities in the festival include: fashion shows by the winners of the contest "Moda Emergente" (Emerging Fashion); events that combine poetry and music; street art (two murals that will be painted during the festival); hip hop and other dance style shows; movie screenings with a program related to national and international rock and roll; fashion and digital art exhibitions; chill out lounges.

Admission is free of charge for all the activities.

Location: Centro Cultural Recoleta. Junin 1930
Dates and Hours: June 11-15, 2009. 3.00 pm to 9.00 pm.

On the occasion of WORLD ENVIRONMENT DAY on June 5th 2009, HOME (The earth from above) will be the first movie ever to be released simultaneously on all media (Theatre, TV, DVD, and internet) across the 5 Continents.
World Environment Day aims to promote worldwide environmental awareness. It was established by the United Nations General Assembly in 1972 to mark the opening of the Stockholm Conference on the Human Environment.
Yann Arthus-Bertrand is a passionate artist and photographer, and an advocate of nature protection and sustainable development. His “Earth Seen from Above” series, an exhibit of large-scale aerial photography, went on to travel to cities around the world, including Buenos Aires; Presently, he has completed the full-length feature film, HOME, produced by Luc Besson. The global premier will be on World Environment Day, 5 June.
HOME was shot entirely from the sky in high definition, showing landscapes captured from a bird’s eye view above. This film calls for a new awareness, inviting the viewer to stop for a moment in order to look at our planet and realize how we treat her treasures and her beauty.
The Global Premiere on 5 June 2009 for World Environment Day features major screenings in exceptional metropolitan sites.
The free of charge outdoor screening in Buenos Aires will take place at 9.00 PM on a large screen set in Plaza Naciones Unidas, Figueroa Alcorta & Austria.

Organized by the European Comission Delegation and Alliance Francaise, with the collaboration of the embassies of the member states of the European Union, the 6th European Cinema Film Series (6a Muestra de Cine Europeo) will feature 16 movies from 17 countries: Germany, Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Slovenia, Spain, Finland, France, Greece, Hungary, Lituania, Italy, Nederland, Poland, Rumania, Czech Republic, Sweden, from May, Monday 18th to Friday 22nd, 2009.

Program:

Monday, May 18
4.00 pm: Risto Rapero (Risto Räppääjä) - Finland
5.00 pm: Working man´s death - Austria
9.00 pm: Lednice - Czech Republic
Štestí - Czech Republic

Tuesday, May 19
4.00 pm: Ekko - Denmark
5.30 pm: Caravaggio - Italy
9.00 pm:Wer früher stirbt ist länger tot - Germany

Wednesday, May 20
3.00 pm: Kolekcioniere - Lithuania
4.30 pm: Binecuvântată fii, închisoare! - Rumania
6.30 pm: All is love - Nederland
9.00 pm: La France - France

Thursday, May 21
4.30 pm: S.O.S. Szerelem! - Hungary
6.30 pm:Νύφες, Nyfes - Greece
9.00 pm: 7 Mesas (De billar francès) - Spain

Friday, May 22
3.00 pm: Petelinji zajtrk - Slovenia
5.15 pm: Ogród Luizy - Poland
7.15 pm: Si le vent soulève les sables - Belgium
9.15 pm: Darling - Sweden

All films will be presented in their original version with Spanish subtitles, except S.O.S. Szerelem! from Hungary which will be dubbed to Spanish.

Location: Alliance Francaise Buenos Aires. Av. Cordoba 946
Free entrance: free tickets must be picked up 30 minutes before the performance. Limited to the auditorium's capacity.

ArtFutura, the festival of Digital Culture and Creativity of reference in Spain since 1990, arrives for the first time in Buenos Aires. It will be held between April 23 and April 26, 2009, at MALBA.
ArtFutura has explored the most interesting projects and ideas that have come up on the international panorama of new media, interactive design, videogames and digital animation. Its activities include conferences, workshops, interactive installations, exhibitions and live performances.
On Friday 24, the Argentine animation film in 3D "Big Bang" will be presented. It received the Special Prize to Technological Innovation Applied to Audio Visual Art at the 3rd CineCien Festival 2008. It's about a journey through time and space aboard the space ship Sigma, that invites to discover the origin of the Universe, the formation of the galaxies and the solar system.
The audio visual program also includes a special documentary about the exhibition “MáquinasyAlmas” (Machines and Souls), presented at Museum Reina Sofia in Madrid; the new selections of ArtFutura Show; Full Motion Theater; Demos+Intros and 3D in Spain, retrospective on the French school Supinfocom and Japanese animator Satoshi Tomioka, and an impressive documentary: “The Net” by Lutz Dammbeck.


Dates: April 23-26, 2009
Location: Malba - Latin American Art Museum. Av. Figueroa Alcorta 3415
Free entrance. Limited Capacity
For more information and program, visit ArtFutura website.

The eleventh edition of Buenos Aires Independent Film Festival (BAFICI) organized by the Ministry of Culture of the city of Buenos Aires, and directed by Sergio Wolf, will take place between March 25th and April 5th, 2009, with screenings at various venues around the city, featuring a total of 350 movies and short films.
Some of the titles that make up this year's program are: 35 shots of rhum, by renowned French director Claire Denis (Chocolat, Nénette et Boni, Beau travail); Filmefobia (Brazil, 2008) a movie about fears by filmmaker Kiko Goifman, who last year presented Handerson e as horas; Examined Life (Canada, 2008) by Astra Taylor, about present existence on a tour along the 5th Avenue; Shirin (Iran, 2008) by Abbas Kiarostami (Through the Olive Trees, A Taste of Cherry, Y The Wind Will Carry Us) presented at the 65th Venice Film Festival, a homage to Iranian women; the second film by Chilean director Sebastián Silva, La nana (Chile-Mexico, 2009) winner as best International Drama Film at the Sundance Festival; Une autre homme (2008) by Swiss director Lionel Baier , about the relation between a famous film critic and a novice in the medium; Milestones (United States, 1975) the documentary by Robert Kramer (Guns, À toute allure, Notre nazi) about writer Grace Paley and her particular vision on Vietnam war; Awaydays (United Kingdom, 2008) by Pat Holden based on the novel by Sampson's; Ponyo on the Cliff by the Sea (Japan, 2008) by animation master Hayao Miyazaki (Sen and the Mysterious Disappearance of Chihiro, Princess Mononoke, Howl's Moving Castle); and 16 memorias (Colombia, 2008) by Camilo Botero Jaramillo, a movie about the family films of the Posada Saldarriagas in Medellín, among many other titles. Some of these filmmakers will be present at Festival.

Venues:
Aliance Francaise: Av. Cordoba 946
Arteplex Duplex Caballito: Av. Rivadavia 5050
Atlas Santa Fe: Av. Santa Fe 2015
Open Air Screenings: Pasaje Carlos Gardel 3100 / Plaza San Martín de Tours (Schiaffino & Posadas)
Espacio BAFICI: Guardia Vieja 3332
Hoyts Abasto: Av. Corrientes 3247
Malba Cine: Av. Figueroa Alcorta 3415
Teatro 25 de Mayo: Av. Triunvirato 4444
Teatro Gral. San Martín: Av. Corrientes 1530 Piso 10º - Sala Leopoldo Lugones.

Tickets: AR $8.
From March 18th to March 25th, 10 AM to 10 PM:
Online at www.bafici.gov.ar
Casa de La Cultura: Av. De Mayo 575
Hoyts Abasto: Av. Corrientes 3247
Hard Rock Café: Pueyrredón 2501
During the festival: Online at www.bafici.gov.ar, or at all the venues of the festival.
There will be some special activities with free entrance at Hoyts Abasto and free concerts at Teatro 25 de Mayo. Free tickets must be picked up on the day of the performances.
For more information, schedules and programs, visit BAFICi 2009 official website.

Les Avant-Premières, a French film series that will feature the best French movies to be premiered during 2009, will take place between Thursday, March 19th and Wednesday, March 25th, at the movie theaters in Patio Bullrich Shoping Mall.

Program:

Entre les murs, 2008.
Direction: Laurent Cantet.
Cast: François Bégaudeau, Nassim Amrabt, Laura Baquela, Juliette Demaille.
Thursday 19, 10 PM | Friday 20, 10.20 PM | Saturday 21, 10.20 PM

Actrices, 2007.
Direction: Valeria Bruni Tedeschi.
Cast: Valeria Bruni Tedeschi, Noémie Lvovsky, Louis Garrel, Mathieu Amalric.
Thursday 19, 5.15 PM | Friday 20, 2.30 PM and 6.30 PM

Rumba, 2008.
Direction: Dominique Abel, Fiona Gordon, and Bruno Romy.
Cast: Dominique Abel, Fiona Gordon, Philippe Martz.
Saturday 21, 12.30 PM and 6.40 PM | Wednesday 25, 9 PM

Les témoins, 2007.
Direction: André Téchiné.
Cast: Michel Blanc, Emmanuelle Béart, Sami Bouajila, Julie Depardieu.
Saturday 21, 4.30 PM and 8.15 PM | Sunday 22, 12.30 PM | Tuesday 24, 9.30 PM

Le silence de Lorna, 2008.
Direction: Jean-Pierre Dardenne and Luc Dardenne.
Cast: Arta Dobroshi, Jérémie Renier, Fabrizio Rongione, Alban Ukaj.
Saturday 21, 2.30 PM | Sunday 22, 4.30 PM | Wednesday 25, 10.30 PM

Enfin veuve, 2007.
Direction: Isabelle Mergault.
Cast: Michèle Laroque, Jacques Gamblin, Wladimir Yordanoff, Tom Morton.
Friday 20, 12.30 PM, 4.30 PM and 8.30 PM

Faubourg 36, 2008.
Direction: Christophe Barratier.
Cast: Gérard Jugnot, Clovis Cornillac, Kad Merad, Nora Arnezeder.
Thursday 19, 12.30 PM and 7.30 PM

Belle Toujours, 2006.
Direction: Manoel de Oliveira.
Cast: Michel Piccoli, Bulle Ogier.
Monday 23, 4.30 PM and 9.00 PM | Tuesday 24, 12.30 PM and 8.30 PM

Jardins en automne, 2006.
Direction: Otar Iosseliani.
Cast: Séverin Blanchet, Michel Piccoli, Muriel Motte, Pascal Vincent.
Monday 23, 6.30 PM and 10.30 PM | Wednesday 25, 12.30 PM

La faute à Fidel!, 2006.
Direction: Julie Gavras.
Cast: Nina Kervel, Julie Depardieu, Stefano Accorsi.
Sunday 22, 2.40 PM, 8.30 PM and 10.30 PM | Tuesday 24, 2.30 PM

Le héros de la famille, 2006.
Direction: Thierry Klifa.
Cast: Catherine Deneuve, Emmanuelle Béart, Gérard Lanvin, Miou-Miou.
Thursday 19, 3.00 PM | Sunday 22, 6.30 PM | Monday 23, 12.30 PM
Tuesday 24, 6.30 PM | Wednesday 25, 5 PM

L’invite, 2007.
Direction: Laurent Bouhnik.
Cast: Daniel Auteuil, Valérie Lemercier, Thierry Lhermitte, Hippolyte Girardot.
Monday 23, 2.30 PM | Tuesday 24, 4.30 PM | Wednesday 25, 3 PM and 7 PM

Tickets: AR$ 10, on sale at Patio Bullrich Movie Theaters. Posadas 1245.

The Ministry of Culture of the city of Buenos Aires invites the public to participate in the over 250 free cultural and artistic activities of the program "Primavera Buenos Aires" (Buenos Aires Spring), that will be held between October 5 and December 13, 2008, including a concert by the worldwide famous Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra at 9 de Julio Avenue, on November 22.
For 11 weekends, parks, squares, and open air spaces in the city will be the setting of varied activities for adults and children, all of them free of charge, such as musical shows, tango, theater, puppets, story telling, magic shows, film screenings, poetry, etc.
There will also be a program of recitals at Parque Roca, urban music at the Greek Amphitheater in Puerto Madero, tango in Mataderos, and the tour of Orquesta de Tango and the City´s Symphonic Band around the different neighborhoods of Buenos Aires.

To see the complete schedule and program of activities, click here.

The Euro American Cinema, Video and Digital Art Exhibition (Muestra Euroamericana de Cine, Video y Arte Digital - MEACVAD) is an annual meeting organized by Alliance Francaise Argentina, Goethe-Institut, and Espacio Fundacion Telefonica, with the support of foreign delegations, universities, and national institutions. During a whole week of activities, performers, directors, theorists, and academicians in visual arts showcase their author-based movies, documentaries, experimental videos and interactive visual arts, to debate about the present status of audiovisual arts and media.
The 2008 edition of MEACVAD focuses on the digital era: digital cinema, online TV, web art, VJs, live events, video games, and cell phones, as means of hyper media production.
Invited guests from America and Europe will converge for a week in Buenos Aires to present their material, showcase their works, offer seminars, and set out a debate about the audiovisual arts, the artistic practices, and the current state of technological transition. MEACVAD presents this year two new publications: "La era Post Analógica", a compilation of the minutes of the event, and "Entre Imágenes", by Raymond Bellour.

Guest Artists:
Lucas Bambozzi (Brazil)- Video artist, academician, documentary-maker, director, curator.
Raymond Bellour (France) – Investigator and theorist in audiovisual arts C.N.R.S.
Silvia Cacciatori (Uruguay) – Designer and audiovisual director
Edgar Endress (Chile) – Video artist and audiovisual director
Federico Falco (Argentina) – Video artist, writer
Carmen Gil Vrolijk (Colombia) – Multimedia artist and academician, Universidad de los Andes.
Ingo Günther (Germany) – Artist, audiovisual director, and academician
Pablo Lamar (Paraguay) – Movie director
Antonio Weinrichter (Spain) Theorist and academician, specialized in documentary

Scheduled activities:
Seminar "Entre Imágenes", Raymond Bellour
Retrospective Lucas Bambozzi.
Retrospective journey around the work of Ingo Günther
30 years of video art, Homage to Carlos Trilnick
"Visionarios", Historical program of cinema and experimental video in Latin America, curated by Arlindo Machado, Itaú Cultural de San Pablo/MAMBA Buenos Aires, at Alliance Francaise
Program Jean-Paul Fargier, Jour après jour (Jean-Daniel Pollet) and Godard/Sollers. L´entretien.
Live events, a story, Carmen Gil Vrolijk.
Monumental Graphics, creative project with GPS, Andrea Di Castro
Documentary, a situation status, Antonio Weinrichter
Presentation Publications MEACVAD: Libro de actas 08 and Entre Imágenes, Raymond Bellour.

Participating institutions:
Centro Cultural de España en Buenos Aires
Centro Cultural de España, Córdoba
Itaú Cultural
Centro Cultural Rector Ricardo Rojas
Centro Multimedia del Centro Cultural General San Martín
MAMBA, Museo de Arte Moderno de Buenos Aires
Embajada de Colombia

Dates: October 27 throgh 31, 2008
Locations:
Alianza Francesa: Av. Cordoba 936/946
Espacio Fundación Telefónica: Arenales 1540
Goethe-Institut: Av. Corrientes 319
All activities free of charge.
More information, registrations and complete program: MEACVAD 2008 official website.

On Wednesday, September 17th, 2008, Olivier Père, artistic director of the "Quinzaine des réalisateurs" (The Director's Fortnight), will be presenting this showcase, one of the most important events in the calendar of international festivals, composed of 44 films that account for the richness, risk and diversity of movie making.
The Quinzaine, which this year celebrates its 40th anniversary, was born amid the political and cultural turmoil of May of '68, and from then on it keeps endorsing the free, independent, cinema, that goes beyond labels and frontiers.
This event is sponsored by: French Emabssy, Goethe-Institut, Cinémathèque Française, Austrian Film Commission, Cultural and Informative Center of the Embassy of Japan, and the Embassies of Austria, México and Portugal.
The films that will be presented are:

40 x 15. (France, 2008). Olivier Jahan.
De la guerre. (France, 2008). Bertrand Bonello.
Barravento (Brazil, 1961). Glauber Rocha.
Liverpool (Argentina-France-Netherlands-Spain-Germany). Lisandro Alonso
Auch Zwerge haben klein angefangen (Germanyl, 1969-1970). Werner Herzog.
Acne (Uruguay - Argentina - Spain - México). Federico Veiroj
Invasión (Argentina, 1969). Hugo Santiago.
De la guerre (France, 2008). Bertrand Bonello.
Operai, contadini (France/Italy, 2000). Danèle Huillet and Jean-Marie Straub.
Othon (Germany/France, 1969). Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet.
Die Plötzliche Reichtum Der Armen Leute Von Konbach (Germanyl, 1970). Volker Schlöndorff.
Gelegenheitsarbeit einer Sklavin (Germany, 1973). Alexander Kluge.
Fata Morgana (Germany, 1968-1970). Werner Herzog.
Aguirre, der Zorn Gottes; (Germany, 1972). Werner Herzog.
Los hijos de Fierro (Argentina, 1975). Fernando “Pino” Solanas.
Últimos días de la víctima (Argentina, 1983). Adolfo Aristarain.
La Mémoire courte (France/ Belgium, 1979). Eduardo de Gregorio.
Bug (United States, 2006). William Friedkin.
Anche libero va bene (Italy, 2006). Kim Rossi Stuart.
Celine et Julie vont en bateau (France, 1974). Jacques Rivette.
Faustrecht der Freiheit (Germany, 1975). Rainer Werner Fassbinder.
Les amoureux (France, 1994). Catherine Corsini.
Samt el qusur (Tunicia/France, 1994). Moufida Tlatli.
Vale Abraão (Portugal/France, 1993). Manoel de Oliveira.
Petit arrangements avec les morts (France, 1994). Pascale Ferran.
La promesse (France/ Belgium, 1996). Jean- Pierre and Luc Dardenne.
Voyages (France, 1999). Emmanuel Finkiel.
Badkonake sefid (Iran, 1995). Jafar Panahi.
Kidzu ritan (Japan, 1996). Takeshi Kitano.
Der 7 Kontient (Austria, 1989). Michael Haneke.
Benny’s video (Austria, 1992). Michael Haneke.
Ma vie en rose (Belgium/France, 1997). Alain Berliner.
West Beyrouth (Lebanon, 1998). Ziad Doueiri.
Die Unberührbare (Germany, 2000). Oskar Roehler.
Japón (México/Germany/Netherlands/Spain, 2002). Carlos Reygadas.
Un oso rojo (Argentina/Spain/France, 2002). Adrián Israel Caetano.
Las horas del día (Spain, 2003). Jaime Rosales.
Tarnation (United States, 2003). Jonathan Caouette.
La question humaine (France, 2007). Nicolás Klotz.
Jude (Great Britain, 1996). Michael Winterbottom.
Buud Yam (Burkina Faso, 1997). Gaston J-M Kabore.
Ça brule (France/Switzerland, 2006). Claire Simon.
A fost sau n-a fost? (Rumania, 2006). Corneliu Porumboiu.
Honor de cavallería (Spain, 2006). Albert Serra.
La influencia (Spain/México, 2007). Pedro Aguilera.

To see the complete program and schedule, visit Complejo Teatral de Buenos Aires website.

Dates: September 17 through October 15, 2008
Location: Sala Leopoldo Lugones. Teatro San Martin. Ave. Corrientes 1530
Tickets: AR$ 7. Students and Seniors: AR$ 4.

The best adventure film festival in the world, Banff Mountain Film Festival, arrives in Buenos Aires for the eighth time as part of its World Tour, with spectacular films about mountaineering, nature, and extreme sports, from countries like Norway, Germany, United States, and Canada, among others.

The program combines 13 short videos and films, featuring great stories of daring sporstmen, surrounded by breathtaking natural landscapes. The Banff Mountain Film Festival was created in 1976, in the Canadian town of Banff, when 450 people gathered to watch 10 movies. From then on the festival grew every year to screen the best pictures that capture the spirit of mountain and adventure culture. The Festival´s World Tour began 15 years ago, and it was presented for the first time in Argentina in 2001.

Dates: September 15th, 16th, and 17th, 2008
Location: Village Cinema Recoleta. Vicente Lopez 2050
Tickets on sale at Hard Rock Café (Pueyrredon 2501), Monday to Saturday: 12 pm to 8 pm. Sunday: 12 pm to 7 pm.

For more information and complete program, visit the Banff Mountain Film Festival's website.